1. Managing in Global Downturn How to Survive & Thrive in Recessionary Times Manfred Jantzen, Ph.D. Senior Advisor & Lecturer University of the West Indies

2. The Solution Leadership Challenge Identify The Problem Identify The Problem UnderstandThe Environment UnderstandThe Environment Develop The Solutions Develop The Solutions ImplementThe Actions ImplementThe Actions Evaluate The Results Evaluate The Results Solution Execution

3. We live & work in a new globalized reality in which Information is the dominant wealth-generating resource Information Resource Is the individual, the organization, the society, the world ready for it? that flows at the speed of light, at nearly 186 000 miles per second in the Global Space.

5. System Information Scan System Behavior Model Actuality System Performance Consequences Real World System Internal Feedback System Operations Action Alignment Loop Adjustment Loop Complex Adaptive System Environment (C.A.S.E.) System External Feedback Growth Direction Maintenance Enablers Vision Values Mission Priorities Strategy Delivery Results Outputs Relations Stakeholders Structures Operations Processes Performance Competencies Knowledge Adaptive Human System (AHE) Reality Perception

6. Adaptive Human Enterprise Feedback View Dynamic Disequilibrium Scan Consequenc es Action System Maintenance Adjustment Closed Balancing Loop (-) Stability - Order System Growth Alignment Open Amplifying Loop (+) Risk – Instability- Chaos Model System Dynamic Disequilibrium Real World Actuality Real World Actuality

7. Results Measures Time Effort Unfolds Paradigm Shifting System The Path of the Attractor The Future C Other Directed Change Self Directed Change High Performance Behavior Range Self Directed Significant Change Event Transformation Range Recovery Crisis Significant Change Event Dysfunctionality Failure/Death Complex Adaptive System Waves Dynamics Riding the Waves of Change Discovery Range A B Attractor Recovery Thermo Dynamic Law I Conservation of Energy Thermo Dynamic Law II Entropy Open systems like Life Cheat the laws for a while Over time life Develops Order Driven Stability - Certainty Chaos driven Relations/Patterns Unfolds

8. If you do not create your own future someone else will do it. Dont let this happen. The Future is Now and it is Yours